How We Got Here: The 70s the Decade That Brought You Modern Life -- For Better or Worse

For many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A society that had valued faith, self-reliance, self-sacrifice, and family loyalty evolved in little more than a decade into one characterized by superstition, self-interest, narcissism, and guilt. Frum examines this metamorphosis through the rise to cultural dominance of faddish psychology, astrology, drugs, religious cults, and consumer debt, and profiles such prominent players of the decade as Werner Erhard, Alex Comfort, and Jerry Brown. How We Got Here is lively and provocative reading.

Author: David Frum
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 12/07/2000
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.30w x 1.14d
ISBN13: 9780465041961
ISBN10: 0465041965
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Political Science | General

About the Author
David Frum is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor for the Weekly Standard. He is also the author of Dead Right.